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I know what you mean. I took an forced break from blogging for this last week, and I was refreshed and ready to come back. Maybe you just need to declare a 1 week or 2 week blog holiday. Make yourself stay off your site. After that, you might be ready to roar back. But keep pen & paper handy for the time off so you can write down all the the things you want to blog about when you come back to the net.
This is what we've been trying to tell the anti-war psychos for two years now: these Islamofascists don't give a rat's ass if you're *cough* against the War on Terror - they'll saw your head off just like Nick Berg's in a heartbeat.
They're almost like Terminators: they can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, they don't feel pity or remorse, and they will not stop - EVER - until you are dead.
So....those of you that continue to think that we're waging an 'imperialistic war' or a war for oil - think again. And think hard about it because there's no going back once your head is being lofted into the air while they chant 'Allah Ahkbar!!'....they mean to 'play for keeps' and there are many of us that intend to facilitate their meeting of Allah.
Interesting how the war is the center of topic on so many sites right now. Interesting.
Anyway, don't assume that because some of us are against the Iraqi war, we are "anti-war psychos". Far from it.
I want the heads of the Islamofacists on "our belts" as much as the next American, but I don't want it at the cost of a poorly planned engagement. And that's what we've got.
I won't take up your bandwidth. My latest rant on my site covers my feelings and rationale in greater detail.
We rolled into Baghdad faster than it took for you to type up that comment.
It took Janet Reno longer to burn the Davidians out of Waco.
It took Ed Wood longer to shoot "Plan 9."
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, October 15, 2005 05:03 AM ||
Poorly planned?
- We overthrew Saddam's regime in a matter of days,and he was supposedly the most powerful military force in the middle east.
- Despite an guerilla war that we didn't plan for, we have managed to keep the terrorists from acheiving even one of their goals. Heck, they barely managed to turn off the lights on election day.
- In spite of all the complaints about armor, planning, mismanagement, etc., we have had fewer soldiers die in Iraq than in any other war in our history.
Maybe ths war was poorly planned, but I fail to see how. War necessarily entails chaos; good commanders are the ones who know how to deal with it, as ours aparently have been doing quite admirably.
Rob, JP: I'm just going to give you the highlights here. PLEASE look at my Thursday post from this week for much more specifics.
1. Al Qaeda attacked us.
2. There were virtually no Al Qaeda in Iraq.
3. We invaded Iraq anyway.
That's poor planning. Sure, we kicked the crap out of a fourth-rate army. BFD. Who's next? Sri Lanka? What about the PLANNING to exit without looking like idiots? Nada.
If we needed a base of operations in the middle east, why not just pitch a tent in Afghanistan? We were already JUSTIFYABLY there. It's because of that planning thing, that's why.
Since Iraq is now the only Muslim country with a democratically-elected Constitutional government, brought to you by the United States of America, and NOT IN YOUR NAME (meaning, NO THANKS TO YOU) isn't it about time the left stopped bitching, whining, moaning and complaining about the reasoning behind going to battle in Iraq, a battle that's pretty much over.
Again, no thanks to the anti-war whiners.
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, October 16, 2005 08:44 AM ||
What many leftists and well-meaning "moderates" such as our friend Other Mike have failed to comprehend since the War was declared (on us), is that we aren't just fighting Al-Qaeda. Defeating Al Qaeda alone will not win us anything but time, if that.
The war we fight is against the virus of a deranged ideology that states it's OK to violate the sanctuary of civilian life to target innocents to further a political agenda driven by a hijacked and bastardized form of popular and yes, peaceful religion. It's an ideology that attempts to forcibly drive its followers and the poor souls around them backward to a past barbaric life that is incompatible with modern civilization. This virus is fed through fear, intimidation, and oppression.
The only effective way to fight this ideology is to spread the cure of a better, more compatible ideology that progresses with the rest of the civilized world by defeating those who spread the virus. Bin Laden can't do it alone. Al Qaeda can't do it alone. Get rid of the environments where their "type" of people thrive and you eventually beat them.
Afghanistan was step one. Iraq step two. Those two steps alone start the dominos, and militant islamism falling.
The shortsightedness of the Anti-Iraq-War movement is astounding.
We did the same thing with Japan and Germany after WWII. We occupied those countries and restored them to economic health. Along the way, we introduced democratic government. It has been a success in both countries. BUT, and this is the real kicker, how long did we have to stay in each country? We only recently closed down the last of our bases in Germany. We've been out of Japan for a while, but we were there at least 20 years or more. Are we prepared to do the same in Iraq? It may take that long.
But how long did we really need to stay in Japan and Germany. In my opinion, we overstayed the necessity, especially once the Cold War ended. The Cold War was also the main reason for our heavy military presence in both Europe and Asia, and China still provides valid justification for bases in the Pacific.
Rebuilding and Democratizing is just a step, you're right. And a heavier American presence in the Middle East is becoming more and more clearly a necessity to ensure global stability, much like our deterrence against the spread of Communism in the 20th century. This is yet another fight that must be fought and won.
Whether we disposed of Saddam Hussein's regime or not, a foreseeable long American military stay in the Middle East has been a future we could not avoid. The war between modern civilization and militant Islamism, unfortunately became inevitable.
I'm not sure how long we needed to stay in Japan or Germany, but I'd estimate at least 10 years. You're right, Chet, that we could have left earlier, as the countries were stable and prosperous. We stayed because of the Cold War, for many of the same reasons we now need to keep a deterrent force in the Middle East. What it boils down to, in my opinion, is that we can fight them there or we can fight them here. I have no trouble choosing which I'd prefer.
On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.
To understand the momentous significance of the decision to send two armed vessels to sea under the authority of the Continental Congress, we need to review the strategic situation in which it was made and to consider the political struggle that lay behind it.
Americans first took up arms in the spring of 1775 not to sever their relationship with the king, but to defend their rights within the British Empire. By the autumn of 1775, the British North American colonies from Maine to Georgia were in open rebellion. Royal governments had been thrust out of many colonial capitals and revolutionary governments put in their places. The Continental Congress had assumed some of the responsibilities of a central government for the colonies, created a Continental Army, issued paper money for the support of the troops, and formed a committee to negotiate with foreign countries. Continental forces captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and launched an invasion of Canada.
In October 1775 the British held superiority at sea, from which they threatened to stop up the colonies' trade and to wreak destruction on seaside settlements. In response a few of the states had commissioned small fleets of their own for defense of local waters. Congress had not yet authorized privateering. Some in Congress worried about pushing the armed struggle too far, hoping that reconciliation with the mother country was still possible.
Yet, a small coterie of men in Congress had been advocating a Continental Navy from the outset of armed hostilities. Foremost among these men was John Adams, of Massachusetts. For months, he and a few others had been agitating in Congress for the establishment of an American fleet. They argued that a fleet would defend the seacoast towns, protect vital trade, retaliate against British raiders, and make it possible to seek out among neutral nations of the world the arms and stores that would make resistance possible.
Still, the establishment of a navy seemed too bold a move for some of the timid men in Congress. Some southerners agreed that a fleet would protect and secure the trade of New England but denied that it would that of the southern colonies. Most of the delegates did not consider the break with England as final and feared that a navy implied sovereignty and independence. Others thought a navy a hasty and foolish challenge to the mightiest fleet the world had seen. The most the pro-navy men could do was to get Congress to urge each colony to fit out armed vessels for the protection of their coasts and harbors.
Then, on 3 October, Rhode Island's delegates laid before Congress a bold resolution for the building and equipping of an American fleet, as soon as possible. When the motion came to the floor for debate, Samuel Chase, of Maryland, attacked it, saying it was "the maddest Idea in the World to think of building an American Fleet." Even pro-navy members found the proposal too vague. It lacked specifics and no one could tell how much it would cost.
If Congress was yet unwilling to embrace the idea of establishing a navy as a permanent measure, it could be tempted by short-term opportunities. Fortuitously, on 5 October, Congress received intelligence of two English brigs, unarmed and without convoy, laden with munitions, leaving England bound for Quebec. Congress immediately appointed a committee to consider how to take advantage of this opportunity. Its members were all New Englanders and all ardent supporters of a navy. They recommended first that the governments of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut be asked to dispatch armed vessels to lay in wait to intercept the munitions ships; next they outlined a plan for the equipping by Congress of two armed vessels to cruise to the eastward to intercept any ships bearing supplies to the British army. Congress let this plan lie on the table until 13 October, when another fortuitous event occurred in favor of the naval movement. A letter from General Washington was read in Congress in which he reported that he had taken under his command, at Continental expense, three schooners to cruise off Massachusetts to intercept enemy supply ships. The commander in chief had preempted members of Congress reluctant to take the first step of fitting out warships under Continental authority. Since they already had armed vessels cruising in their name, it was not such a big step to approve two more. The committee's proposal, now appearing eminently reasonable to the reluctant members, was adopted.
The Continental Navy grew into an important force. Within a few days, Congress established a Naval Committee charged with equipping a fleet. This committee directed the purchasing, outfitting, manning, and operations of the first ships of the new navy, drafted subsequent naval legislation, and prepared rules and regulations to govern the Continental Navy's conduct and internal administration.
Over the course of the War of Independence, the Continental Navy sent to sea more than fifty armed vessels of various types. The navy's squadrons and cruisers seized enemy supplies and carried correspondence and diplomats to Europe, returning with needed munitions. They took nearly 200 British vessels as prizes, some off the British Isles themselves, contributing to the demoralization of the enemy and forcing the British to divert warships to protect convoys and trade routes. In addition, the navy provoked diplomatic crises that helped bring France into the war against Great Britain. The Continental Navy began the proud tradition carried on today by our United States Navy, and whose birthday we celebrate each year in October.
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An early birthday present from my wife: a ticket to the 2005 Miramar Air Show this Sunday!! And not just any ticket - this one is for one of the 'preferred' areas: the Flight Deck Chalet. W00t!!
I'll be taking my digital camera along to attempt to get some shots of both the static displays and the Blue Angels exhibition.
Five years ago the USS Cole (DDG-67) was attacked by Al Qaida:
On October 12, 2000, USS Cole came to the harbor of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. At 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-40-foot (12 m-by-12 m) gash in the ship's port side. The crew fought flooding in the engineering spaces and had the damage under control by the evening. Divers inspected the hull and said the keel was not damaged.
Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 others were injured in the blast. The injured sailors were taken to the United States Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein, Germany, and later to the U.S.
The attack, organized by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist organization, was carried out by suicide bombers Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa.
And although the payback for this is just now coming to fruition, let us never forget those that were murdered and injured in this cowardly attack.
Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the rubble after a massive earthquake killed more than 30,000 people in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir alone.
"I have been informed by my department that more than 30,000 people have died in Kashmir," Tariq Mahmmod, communications minister for the Himalayan region, told The Associated Press.
Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake also struck India and Afghanistan, which reported hundreds dead.
Pakistan's army called the earthquake the country's worst-ever disaster and appealed for urgent help. Rival India, the United States, the United Nations, Britain, Russia, China, Turkey, Japan and Germany all offered assistance.
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Alright, I know what I'm about to say may not make me very popular, BUT...
On 9/11 we were told that an estimated 10,000 people died. It only turned out to be 3,000. During Hurricane Katrina, we were given the same number and less than a thousand people died. This is why I don't trust the news.
I'm not saying that this isn't a tragedy, but I am saying that we need to be skeptical of the estimates and the reporting. Remember all the Katrina coverage was a little over a month ago. Have we not learned anything?
Yeah, you've got a point Dave - I hadn't even thought about the typical 'over-inflation' of deaths.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 10, 2005 07:00 AM ||
It is only disasters inside the US where the original death toll estimates are higher than the final count. Outside the US, the counts start fairly high and just keep going up.
The Boxing Day tsunami estimates started at 10,000 and just kept getting higher. Final toll was >200,000 with several thousand listed as missing.
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I know what you mean. I took an forced break from blogging for this last week, and I was refreshed and ready to come back. Maybe you just need to declare a 1 week or 2 week blog holiday. Make yourself stay off your site. After that, you might be ready to roar back. But keep pen & paper handy for the time off so you can write down all the the things you want to blog about when you come back to the net.
|| Posted by Cait, October 14, 2005 10:32 PM ||Eh, we all go through this, especially when there is no real news going on.
|| Posted by Dave, October 15, 2005 05:17 PM ||OBT is posting again. '
http://www.livejournal.com/users/oldbuicktanker/
And we found L-O-F on www.madkane.com 's forums.
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October 13, 2005
Perspective
They're almost like Terminators: they can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, they don't feel pity or remorse, and they will not stop - EVER - until you are dead.
So....those of you that continue to think that we're waging an 'imperialistic war' or a war for oil - think again. And think hard about it because there's no going back once your head is being lofted into the air while they chant 'Allah Ahkbar!!'....they mean to 'play for keeps' and there are many of us that intend to facilitate their meeting of Allah.
(Cartoon politely glommed from Cox & Forkum)
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And then there's this one, which pretty much sums up our relationship with the Arab world.
|| Posted by Cait, October 14, 2005 10:10 AM ||Interesting how the war is the center of topic on so many sites right now. Interesting.
Anyway, don't assume that because some of us are against the Iraqi war, we are "anti-war psychos". Far from it.
I want the heads of the Islamofacists on "our belts" as much as the next American, but I don't want it at the cost of a poorly planned engagement. And that's what we've got.
I won't take up your bandwidth. My latest rant on my site covers my feelings and rationale in greater detail.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, October 14, 2005 05:24 PM ||"poorly planned engagement?"
We rolled into Baghdad faster than it took for you to type up that comment.
It took Janet Reno longer to burn the Davidians out of Waco.
It took Ed Wood longer to shoot "Plan 9."
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, October 15, 2005 05:03 AM ||Poorly planned?
- We overthrew Saddam's regime in a matter of days,and he was supposedly the most powerful military force in the middle east.
- Despite an guerilla war that we didn't plan for, we have managed to keep the terrorists from acheiving even one of their goals. Heck, they barely managed to turn off the lights on election day.
- In spite of all the complaints about armor, planning, mismanagement, etc., we have had fewer soldiers die in Iraq than in any other war in our history.
Maybe ths war was poorly planned, but I fail to see how. War necessarily entails chaos; good commanders are the ones who know how to deal with it, as ours aparently have been doing quite admirably.
|| Posted by J-P, October 15, 2005 12:30 PM ||Sorry Mikey, here goes:
Rob, JP: I'm just going to give you the highlights here. PLEASE look at my Thursday post from this week for much more specifics.
1. Al Qaeda attacked us.
2. There were virtually no Al Qaeda in Iraq.
3. We invaded Iraq anyway.
That's poor planning. Sure, we kicked the crap out of a fourth-rate army. BFD. Who's next? Sri Lanka? What about the PLANNING to exit without looking like idiots? Nada.
If we needed a base of operations in the middle east, why not just pitch a tent in Afghanistan? We were already JUSTIFYABLY there. It's because of that planning thing, that's why.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, October 15, 2005 04:32 PM ||Since Iraq is now the only Muslim country with a democratically-elected Constitutional government, brought to you by the United States of America, and NOT IN YOUR NAME (meaning, NO THANKS TO YOU) isn't it about time the left stopped bitching, whining, moaning and complaining about the reasoning behind going to battle in Iraq, a battle that's pretty much over.
Again, no thanks to the anti-war whiners.
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, October 16, 2005 08:44 AM ||What many leftists and well-meaning "moderates" such as our friend Other Mike have failed to comprehend since the War was declared (on us), is that we aren't just fighting Al-Qaeda. Defeating Al Qaeda alone will not win us anything but time, if that.
The war we fight is against the virus of a deranged ideology that states it's OK to violate the sanctuary of civilian life to target innocents to further a political agenda driven by a hijacked and bastardized form of popular and yes, peaceful religion. It's an ideology that attempts to forcibly drive its followers and the poor souls around them backward to a past barbaric life that is incompatible with modern civilization. This virus is fed through fear, intimidation, and oppression.
The only effective way to fight this ideology is to spread the cure of a better, more compatible ideology that progresses with the rest of the civilized world by defeating those who spread the virus. Bin Laden can't do it alone. Al Qaeda can't do it alone. Get rid of the environments where their "type" of people thrive and you eventually beat them.
Afghanistan was step one. Iraq step two. Those two steps alone start the dominos, and militant islamism falling.
The shortsightedness of the Anti-Iraq-War movement is astounding.
|| Posted by Chet, October 17, 2005 10:07 PM ||We did the same thing with Japan and Germany after WWII. We occupied those countries and restored them to economic health. Along the way, we introduced democratic government. It has been a success in both countries. BUT, and this is the real kicker, how long did we have to stay in each country? We only recently closed down the last of our bases in Germany. We've been out of Japan for a while, but we were there at least 20 years or more. Are we prepared to do the same in Iraq? It may take that long.
|| Posted by Cait, October 18, 2005 06:30 AM ||But how long did we really need to stay in Japan and Germany. In my opinion, we overstayed the necessity, especially once the Cold War ended. The Cold War was also the main reason for our heavy military presence in both Europe and Asia, and China still provides valid justification for bases in the Pacific.
Rebuilding and Democratizing is just a step, you're right. And a heavier American presence in the Middle East is becoming more and more clearly a necessity to ensure global stability, much like our deterrence against the spread of Communism in the 20th century. This is yet another fight that must be fought and won.
Whether we disposed of Saddam Hussein's regime or not, a foreseeable long American military stay in the Middle East has been a future we could not avoid. The war between modern civilization and militant Islamism, unfortunately became inevitable.
|| Posted by Chet, October 18, 2005 07:06 AM ||I'm not sure how long we needed to stay in Japan or Germany, but I'd estimate at least 10 years. You're right, Chet, that we could have left earlier, as the countries were stable and prosperous. We stayed because of the Cold War, for many of the same reasons we now need to keep a deterrent force in the Middle East. What it boils down to, in my opinion, is that we can fight them there or we can fight them here. I have no trouble choosing which I'd prefer.
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October 12, 2005
230 Years Old & Still Kicking Butt
The birth of the world's greatest navy:
Read More of "230 Years Old & Still Kicking Butt"230 years of Honor, Courage, and Commitment and we're still standing tall to defend the United States of America.
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An early birthday present from my wife: a ticket to the 2005 Miramar Air Show this Sunday!! And not just any ticket - this one is for one of the 'preferred' areas: the Flight Deck Chalet. W00t!!
I'll be taking my digital camera along to attempt to get some shots of both the static displays and the Blue Angels exhibition.
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You lucky buck. Hope your birthday was great. How could it not be with the Angels performing for you?
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Five Years Later
Five years ago the USS Cole (DDG-67) was attacked by Al Qaida:
And although the payback for this is just now coming to fruition, let us never forget those that were murdered and injured in this cowardly attack.Linda has a much better tribute to those murdered five years ago.
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30,000 Dead and Rising
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- Australian Red Cross
- AmeriCares
- CARE Australia
- World Vision's SAVE Fund
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Alright, I know what I'm about to say may not make me very popular, BUT...
On 9/11 we were told that an estimated 10,000 people died. It only turned out to be 3,000. During Hurricane Katrina, we were given the same number and less than a thousand people died. This is why I don't trust the news.
I'm not saying that this isn't a tragedy, but I am saying that we need to be skeptical of the estimates and the reporting. Remember all the Katrina coverage was a little over a month ago. Have we not learned anything?
|| Posted by Dave, October 10, 2005 06:06 AM ||Yeah, you've got a point Dave - I hadn't even thought about the typical 'over-inflation' of deaths.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 10, 2005 07:00 AM ||It is only disasters inside the US where the original death toll estimates are higher than the final count. Outside the US, the counts start fairly high and just keep going up.
The Boxing Day tsunami estimates started at 10,000 and just kept getting higher. Final toll was >200,000 with several thousand listed as missing.
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